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Earthquake numbers by district and magnitude

November 2008
District M>=6 6>M>=5 5>M>=4 4>M>=3 M<3 Unknown Total
Hokkaido 0 1 12 47 697 69 826
Tohoku 0 0 5 38 2480 21 2544
Kanto 0 0 6 20 1210 15 1251
Chubu 0 0 2 17 1384 9 1412
Kinki 0 0 0 6 1135 11 1152
Chugoku, Shikoku 0 0 0 5 566 7 578
Kyushu, Ryukyu Is. 0 0 10 68 1609 124 1811
Near Japan * 0 3 26 72 58 5 164
Total 0 4 61 273 9139 261 9738

*; Sakhalin, Kurile Is., Korea, Ogasawara Is., Primorskii, Taiwan
Total number of earthquakes felt with a seismic intensity of 1 or greater on the JMA scale: 102
(Includes earthquakes whose hypocentral parameters were not determined.)